As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads around the world, a growing number of researchers are using computational models to estimate the illness’ reproduction value (R0), a measure of the average transmission rate.
A student's non-profit is helping to train thousands basic first responder skills across parts of Uganda, Chad, Guatemala, and most recently Sierra Leone.
The University of Michigan was selected as the host site for a large international conference this summer focused on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
Two medical students spent much of January in Uganda and Rwanda for a course that found them learning alongside health career students from around the world.
A UMMS faculty member has been selected as the next Medical Director of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), the prominent, nonprofit organization that uses medical science to document, investigate, and advocate against human rights abuses around the world.
A faculty member with active partnerships and an extensive network of professional relationships in Brazil has been designated to help foster and expand University of Michigan Medical School collaborations in that country.
With an expanded call for research proposals, the Michigan Medicine-Peking University Health Science Center (PKUHSC) Joint Institute is looking to help investigators bring their new technologies away from of the bench and nearer to the bedside.
New Joint Institute awards for 2020 will focus on tech transfer.
A visiting student from China earning her PhD at UMMS has garnered an award from the American Heart Association (AHA) to support her research.
More than 80 Michigan Medicine leaders, faculty and staff made a recent visit to China to celebrate and advance the medical school’s largest international partnership.
The University of Michigan last month welcomed a delegation from the American University of Beirut (AUB), one of the premier academic institutions in the Middle East.
A small group of physicians recently became the first Michigan Medicine faculty delegation in recent memory to visit Uzbekistan, where they explored potential collaborations in the central Asian nation.
A UMMS student is taking a year off for training in an unusual sub-specialty: journalism.
Michigan Medicine’s partner institution in Ethiopia has graduated its first-ever ophthalmology residents with help from the Kellogg Eye Center (KEC).
The head of international giving at one of the country’s largest charitable organizations was recently in Ann Arbor to speak about how her Michigan Medicine experience shaped her career and current job.
A record 12 new research projects between UMMS faculty and collaborators in China have been funded through the Joint Institute (JI) partnership between Michigan Medicine and Peking University Health Science Center, in Beijing.
Communicating medical concepts is hard enough when a physician and patient share a common language. Add a second language to the mix, and it gets much more complicated, something Manuel Valdivieso knows firsthand.
When it comes to health disparities, how do academics and activism intersect? “Advancing Health Through Advocacy” is the theme of the ninth annual Sujal M. Parikh Symposium for Health and Social Justice, set to take place at U-M this fall.
The University of Michigan Medical School is set to welcome more students from China for biomedical science training thanks to a new dual-degree agreement with Central South University’s Xiangya School of Medicine.
With a recent gift to Global REACH, two generous donors want to make sure that medical students are thinking about their education – not worrying about expenses– when considering whether to pursue training opportunities overseas.
